Windows 8 Server Hyper-V Live Migration Without Shared Storage

UPDATE 04/06/2012 – The KDC bug I mention at the bottom of this post has been fixed in Server 2012 Release Candidate. Tested a live migration from a remote WIndows 8 Release Preview client, and all went well.

Hyper-V in Windows 8 Server has had a major uplift. As much as I like working with [...]

Enable RemoteFX on Windows 8 Server Beta

There are loads of documented changes and improvements to the RemoteFX technology stack in Windows 8 Server, so of course I’m keen to try it out.

I’ve now got my hands on three Dell Optiplex 990 systems, each with 12GB RAM and a Radeon HD5450 GPU. Not cutting-edge perhaps, but fine for testing basic functionality.

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Sysprep/OOBE experience in Windows 8 Server

I recently fired up a couple of Windows 8 Server Hyper-V VMs to do some testing, and used a dynamically-expanding parent VHD with a couple of differencing disks to do so.

The process was pretty much exactly that of any other Windows operating system:

Install the operating system Patch/install stuff according to taste and requirements [...]

Linux Users of Victoria – MS/Linux Virtualisation and Interoperability

Last night I gave a presentation to LUV – the Linux Users of Victoria user group.

The topic was on how Microsoft is supporting Linux and UNIX: on Hyper-V, through native interoperability and what’s coming in the realm of native management. Also, how Microsoft is engaging with and supporting the open source community at large.

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Install Android on Hyper-V

One of the labs I’m currently working on is connectivity between SCCM 2012 and Exchange 2010, and how SCCM 2012 can manage non-Windows mobile devices running Apple iOS and Android. To this end I need some mobile devices for testing, but I don’t have anything running Android.

Fortunately, it’s possible to get a decent Android [...]